El Físico Nuclear has succeeded Jon Frum as King of the United States of America among members of the cargo cult on Vanatu Island. According to their mystic visions, El Físico Nuclear has material wealth, intended for the islanders, which the colonial government is keeping for itself. In this photograph, the islanders discuss the manner in which El Físico Nuclear might have contributed to Heidegger's Being and Time.
A temporalized grafitto left on this website by a fan of El Físico Nuclear.
1. Similar stories are told of Thomas Jefferson; see Thomas Jefferson, a film by Ken Burns . Indeed, the Jefferson version may merely be a transplant of a story which began with El Físico Nuclear onto Jefferson.
Heedless of any possible danger to himself, El Físico Nuclear flings himself at his mortal enemy Vandál Drummónd, in a vain effort to prevent the interaction of flouridated water with Vandál's parathyroid glands. The resulting explosion killed El Físico, Vandál, and everyone else within a two mile radius in a suburb of Savannah, Georgia, on December 12, 1988.
2. This may not appear as exact as Sappho's lines, but I had in mind the 'longshore' or 'dory' fisherman, who returns at nightfall.
3. For more on this subject, see Gwen Dibley, "Marginalia in Ohio River Valley Public Library Copies of John Keel's The Mothman Prophecies," ALA Journal 135:366-380.
4. Jim Brandon, Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978) 33.
A Bungalow of Solitude, disguised as an Integratron in the Mojave Desert.
5. The following lines were stimulated by the account of one of the Antarctic expeditions (I forget which, but I think
one of Shackleton's): it was related that the party of explorers, at the extremity of their strength, had the constant delusion that there was one more member than could actually be counted.
© 1998 Denise Hopenhaym
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